An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan (retroactive payments)

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Olivia Chow  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Outside the Order of Precedence (a private member's bill that hasn't yet won the draw that determines which private member's bills can be debated), as of Feb. 26, 2014
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Pension Plan so that a person who applies for a survivor’s pension can receive full retroactive payments, including interest payable on the arrears of that survivor’s pension.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-576s:

C-576 (2010) An Act to amend the Criminal Code (personating peace officer)